John Robertson
The Dark Room
WINNER Chortle Award
RUNNER- UP NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy
VIRAL AS HELL TikTok, Instagram
SOLD OUT – Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023 & 2024
FIRST TIME BACK IN AMSTERDAM SINCE 2015!
Welcome to THE DARK ROOM – the legendary interactive comedy show that fuses improv, crowdwork and gaming to create an insane live-action videogame!
“An hilarious, participatory cult classic”
Neil Patrick Harris
Come watch, and if you want – play – the choose-your-own-adventure madness!
The crowd is trapped inside an inescapable dungeon with a sadistic videogame boss!
Pick increasingly surreal options off the screen and try to escape!
If you win – you get money!
If you fail – YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!
Now, will you:
- Find the Light Switch
- Go North?
- Abandon Hope?
- Be sworn at by a man wearing spiked armour and a lot of leather?
(This option is permanently set to “On”)
Now its 13th year, this high-octane interactive show is the brainchild of comedian & cult leader John Robertson. Filled with stand-up, appalling prizes and more audience chanting than you’d get at a protest – The Dark Room is a gut-busting rock n’ roll comedy experience for everyone who buys a ticket.
Permanently on tour The Dark Room has headlined stages at Glastonbury, PAX, Download Festival, MCM Comic Con, Utrecht International Comedy Festival 2000 Trees, UK Games Expo and Bluedot Festival, and sold out at Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre and hundreds of theatres around the world.
Oh, and videos of The Dark Room roasting videogames and swearing at children keep popping up on people’s social media, which is nice.
“You must see this show”
“Something of a masterpiece”
A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled.
“NOT TO BE MISSED!”
“What a marvellous, maddening concept this is from the twisted mind of Robertson.”

Tour dates
31 May 2025
UK GAMES EXPO
22 June 2025
Frog and Bucket, Manchester
6 September 2025
Bosjesfestival, Hilversum - ON SALE SOON
7 September 2025
BOOM CHICAGO, Amsterdam
11 October 2025
PAX Australia, Melbourne
30 October 2025
The Atkinson, Southport
2 November 2025
Foundry, Sheffield
10 November 2025
Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
14 November 2025
Junction, Cambridge
7 December 2025
Frog and Bucket, Manchester